loge Two 1 Jim Jim, pad}. By WAYNE STENGEL It was spring on the Grinnell College campus. The sun warmly bathed the faces and backs ot coeds hurrying to class. Then aud- denly, with the tyrannical swift- ness and efficiency of unadulter- ated power, the omnipresent Grin- nell administration outlawed the lunbacked dress on campus. The 5&8, as always the mouth- piece of student liberty, leaped to the defense of its “proletarietle” with vehement eloquence in a May 19, I934, editorial sarcastical~ Iy entitled, “1734 or 1934?” “Why is an expanse of feminine back bordered by pique or seersucker immodest, when a border of silk crepe or crepe cle chine brings the same object within the bounds of decency? There is no apparent explanation; but surely there must be one, or why the recent decree torbidding Iun»back dresses on the Grihnell campus? At I schml which provides a special smoking room for its coeds (quite possibly the first school west of the Missis» aippi to do so) and allows them 12 o'clock hours on dance nights, such a puritanical regulation ap- pears not a little ridiculous. . ,The instigators of the new ruling would apparently have {me believe that the informal low-backed dress is an invention of the devil and that only a ‘hussy' would be seen in one. The average Grinnell coed is completely capable of judging what ittirs is in good tnste and within the bounds of modesty. To forbid her the right to exercise this judgment is but to invite the fiance." (Indeed, Grinnell girls might start wearing blue jeans all over campus.) Earlier in that month, May 2, 1934, Wayne Morse, then dean oi the University of Oregon law school, addressed Grinnell stll~ dents in a speech at Herrick Chap el. His analysis of the five types of college students, though heav- ily tinged with the social discon- tent ol the 30’s, is amazingly ap- plicable to Grinnell students of the 1960’s: “Five types of students enter the halls or learning. The tirst type includes the student who is just plain indifferent. He goes to col- lege without knowing why; his folks foot the bill. He seldom ques- tions what his professors put forth. “The constitutional conservative ialls into the second group. he finds comfort in the status quo; why should he argue and dream and plan and strive tor change? The here and now is its own der tense and justification. “Third in the list is the hedo- nist, unconsciously so, for he does not know hedonism is s phi- losophy. He knows “pleasure and pain” as the leading motives or life. He seeks the me and avoids the other. It is he who gives the administration occasional trouble and must be'reprimanded or sent to another environment. "The fourth group is the ideal- ist and crusader. He is the most forceful of college students. He is the leader of leagues and protest movements. l-le embraces the cause of freedom and justice. "And lastly, there is the critical realist. He is the doubter and skeptic, the eternal usher ot ques- tions. He has die courage .to dis- agree, the energy and mental dis- cipline necessary for practical hf- fairs." Kent Unsure of ’North Campus Prohlem,’ Asks Whether Hull System Is at Fault To the Editor: I tind the whole recent debate conceming the hall system dis- turbing. it is disturbing because all discussion has been based on assumptions which have neither been clearly asserted not proved to be tnle. The assumptions are (I) that there is a “North Campus problem" and (2) that it is the result of the present hall system. I cannot say that there isn’t a “North Campus problem". Nor can I say that if there is one it isn’t rooted in the present hnll setup. 1 don’t know and i don't think anyone else really knows either. Thererore, before pro posing any more solutions to the “North Campus problem" let us ask first if such a problem actually exists. Then, if we find that_lt does, let us detinc it clearly Ind publicly and, while we Ire at it, let's also attempt to define just what both ideally and realistically we wish our residence system to accomplish, Personally I have no particular gripes with the resent hall sys~ tem and think there is much to recommend it. But 1 at is irrelevant. The residence situation, at best, is only partially related in the real campus problems of irresponsible conduct and academic apathy on the part of a significant portion of the student body. Imaginative sug- gestions are Certainly in order but let's not confine them to the hall system which may or may not be ll part ol llrger problems. 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Wayne Sin-gel. sue asiimer. nick chsdy . lelsy Heron. a-i-bsu Weiitsli . ltsrun suninim, sum wul SCARLET AND BLACK Doug McCormac Friday. October 0. "MI The Grudge Pot The professor glumly crossed ltis legs in the ”English hang,” and his pointed tnot swung regu- larly like the pendulum of an antique clock. "Today, class, we discuss . . .." he began, mut- tering soitly toward the sheaf of papers on his desk. But the tick cf the clock on the wall, sounding ex< actly with the monotone of his Voice, made indiS« tingllishable his words. As he looked across the desert — the wasteland of a classroom, gazing on the cactus stumps called students and hoping fora response — he seemed to see the tongues of several students ~ perhaps, all of them - falling from their mouths and drop- ping cn the desks. One hay, conspicuously stupid-looking, had an abnormally large and lazy tongue that dripped saliva as it lay quivering on in wooden table. The boy's eyes were swollen and half closed. an it he knew that he was especially useless to this class. The boy remained motionless when the pro fessor asked who was Albee. “Are you bored, class?” the scholar wondered out loud. “Are you just plain bored? It's a crime against nature to be bored. Please, don't be bored. Be any- thing but bored." “l'm a duck," said a young man in the front row, who happened to overhear. "Quack, quack, quack." He jumped about the room in a squat posir tion, his arms flapping like wings; but everyone else seemed too bored to notice. "You're not a duck. No one even thinks you're a duck," said the proiessor, pointing to the passive classroom as proof. "Why don’t you shut up and cut the quackin’," shunted another student from the hack of the room. “Let the prof do the talkin’. He knows who's a duck and who isn't.” "Yeah," said a tough-looking girl. “I've had dates with guys like you. if it's not a duck, it's some- thin’ else." “You stink, fella," A large athlete said, rising and pushing down the duckrmimic with a dirty en- gineer boot. "The phonics are worst of all.” “We do not seem to be advancing in our les- sons," interrupted the professor, nervously avoid» ing the sight of the prostrate youth. "We don’t need you, either, prof.” said the athlete, 3nd he smashed the podium with a side lung kick of his boot, “Why don't you go back to your room and have a martini land read I book?" "Good idea!" exclaimed the scholar, hurriedly departing. “And no class next week. 1 have a con- ference in Hoboken.” "Stoke the times while you’re leavin', prof," the athlete shouted down the hallway. "It‘s freeiin' in here. X can almost see your breath!" The clasl responded with a sharp, short burst of laughter. David Lighthourne trains and rivers It didn’t take the SGA Ad- visory Council very long Wednes- day night to decide against mak- ing monthly contributions to l Des Moines civil rights project. The idea of allocating student funds was alien to most minds, too big a responsibility for some, and there was even talk of a sizable opposition to such action on the part of the body politic being represented. Keeping in mind that this is the college generation becoming no torious tor its political and social conscience, supposedly ready to take on any toe in its morally resolute regard for minority rights, and you have the strange specter of liberal-arts Grinnell as a blind island in a sea of student awareness, an illiberal pocket of nonsophisticates out in the prov~ inces who haven’t heard yet that it's 1965. if you don’t want to go that far, you can simply agree that student apathy here even cuts across threads of allegiance running through the psychologi- cal cloth of the entire genera- tldn. SGA people, repmentstivss for us all, apparently don't give a lcatological expression Iboul civil rights. it least not openly. Paul Thurston was hinting at this when he puzzled over the idea of allocating all that money. for damage bills every year and then not being able to find 350 “RIDDLE: How can you tell . Great Society man 1mm an old logeyPAnswer: Ask him to identity'us. Granl.’ If the answer is‘a Civil War genersr he’s a certified at - if he says 'a lederal sub- “dy’ he 3 For wimpy it it»; n .. .t Ni. no AllEVlEW,wm- on, ii“ 2. a month to spend on an ironlcal- ly constructive effort. The other side of the coin, though, has it that somebody has the generation all wrong, and that political militants among us are only the freakish party fa- vors of a middle class society so strong that it can undenvrite sur- realist and orgiastic rituals of seltincrimination at no expense whenever it becomes either over- ly bored or overly guilt-ridden, In this view, disaffectit‘m with the parent society has produced a malaise so thorough and pro found that most people don‘t even bother with the symbolic working out of their bitterness as represented in things like eccentricities of dress, experi- mentation w i t h hallucinatory drugs. or commitment to radical causes, It simply does no good. This kind of behavior is, instead. increasingly restricted to young- ti- and younger adherents, those people not yet hip to their own psychologies. A close examina- tion of current high school fad! will bear this out. Accordingly, it was only the 'conjunction of the Negro's‘ in- creased political aspirations with a growing alienation trorn ordi- nary instltutiona that allows young radicals the respectability they newly possess. The (act that this genention‘s polities speaks for no thorough ideology attests to its inability to relate to ordie nary channels of action and change. it this is in unusuauy black portrait, it iii possibly because I have gotten tired of loaklng at gray ones for so long. This belies a certain impatience on my part with people who don‘t appreciate the full significance of wide- : p r e a d boredom. Admittedly, there is a certain mood afoot in the civil rights movement that wants to shift emphasis 1mm demonstrations to politics. and there is certainly a strain ot idealism somewhere along all those people singing “We Shall Overcome." There is more ideal- ism, anyway, in singing tor the sake of song when you could be out voting against Des Moines projects. in a curiously legslls tic and ostensibly wholesome way, the son has done its small part in speaking for us all. PHOTO CREDITS pir- l: non Hodteme aub nodlerns aob ltodlei-ns Steve Shanda wesr lOVES DINOSAURS - HEY YOU! Stop In Al Wards Catalog Store in Hour Service 1364"!